Johnson & Johnson Is Told to Pay $344 Million in Pelvic Mesh Suit
Johnson & Johnson should pay $344 million in damages because the company deceptively marketed transvaginal pelvic mesh implants to tens of thousands of women in California, a judge ruled Thursday.
Johnson & Johnson said it intended to appeal the ruling, which it said “disregards” the company’s compliance with federal regulations.
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Vaping Illness Tracker: 2,602 Cases and 57 Deaths
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state agencies have reported 2,602 lung injury cases that required hospitalization and 57 deaths linked to...
Medtronic facing litigation over surgical staplers and injury reporting
Three people who say they were seriously injured by Medtronic surgical staplers are suing the company for knowingly selling defective devices and intentionally hiding risks from doctors and patients.
An attorney for one of the plaintiffs said the three cases, filed in Minnesota and Texas courts in the waning days of 2019, might signal the...
Mylan recalls common antacid after detecting carcinogen
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Mylan has started a voluntary nationwide recall on three lots of a commonly prescribed stomach ulcer drug after finding trace amounts of a probable human carcinogen, the drugmaker stated Wednesday.The recall is focused on three batches that were distributed in 2017 and 2018. Testing found low levels of NDMA, or N-nitrosodimethylamine, a likely...U.S. safety agency opens probe into fatal Tesla crash in Indiana
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday it was launching an investigation into the Dec. 29 crash of a Tesla Model 3 that left a passenger dead after the vehicle collided with a parked fire truck in Indiana.
The crash is the 14th involving Tesla that NHTSA’s special crash investigation program...
To Prevent Deadly Infections, F.D.A. Approves the First Disposable ‘Scope’
Following a series of deadly outbreaks in hospitals around the country, the Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first fully disposable version of the medical device implicated in the infections.
Reusable versions of the device — a long, snakelike tube with a fiber-optic camera at one end, called a duodenoscope — are inserted...
FDA probes diabetes drug metformin for carcinogen NDMA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other healthcare regulators are investigating whether diabetes drug metformin had contaminations of a cancer-causing chemical that prompted a recall of a commonly used heartburn medication this year.
The move is part of the FDA’s broader push to investigate a range of drugs for the presence of the carcinogen,...
Troubled Children’s Hospital Is Sued Over Toddler Who Died After Surgery
The parents of a 3-year-old who died after heart surgery at North Carolina Children’s Hospital in 2016 are suing the institution, saying it failed to disclose internal concerns about the quality of its care.
Tasha and Thomas Jones, the parents, also allege that doctors didn’t warn them about problems with the heart surgery program, and...
Powder Keg: FDA bowed to industry for decades as alarms were sounded over talc
At an invitation-only gathering late last year, U.S. regulators and their guests huddled at a hotel near Washington, D.C., to discuss the best way to detect cancer-causing asbestos in talc powders and cosmetics.
The “Asbestos in Talc Symposium,” sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration, was dominated by industry hands: Most of the 21 non-government...
Used car dealers didn’t want to fix deadly defects, so they wrote a law to avoid it
Carlos Solis never knew he was driving with a “shrapnel bomb” inside his steering wheel.
The 35-year-old father of two was waiting to make a left turn on a suburban road outside Houston when another car struck the front end of his Honda Accord, triggering its airbags.
Instead of protecting Solis, the defective airbags shot a...
